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by Brent Kellogg
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WEDNESDAY,
11.19.08 - LIEberman craps on the democrats and they come back for
more. The vote to let lying Joe keep saying he's a democrat, and as a Jew to
allow him to chair anything with the name 'Homeland' in it, the vote was
43-13. So there 'ya go. More proof that the Dems as a whole are spineless.
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You know they'll find a way out of it, but the Dickhead and his butt boy
have been indicated by a South Texas grand jury on charges related to the
alleged abuse of prisoners in county federal detention centers. The
indictment criticizes Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds
interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention
centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least
misdemeanor assaults" on detainees by working through the prison companies.
Alberto Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an
investigation into abuses at the detention centers.
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Let us change the name of the auto bailout to union bailout. Without Ford,
GM and Chrysler, there would still be an auto industry made up of Toyota,
Honda and Mercedes. Those companies are doing just fine, so let the others
go into chapter 7 and save the $25 billion. Too funny, GM's top dog told a
senate committee that the company is in trouble because people can't get
credit to buy their cars and trucks. Oh shit! Isn't that the problem? That
too many people are buying on credit?
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CYA, the Supreme's come to Big Pharma's rescue:
The court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for
dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects
arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as
"preemption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any
responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if
information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process.
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When Sen. Inhofe hints that gangster Paulson is making out like a bandit you
know there must be some truth to it. Inholfe wants back what's left of the
$700b.
"It is just outrageous that the American people don't know that Congress
doesn't know how much money he (Paulson) has given away to anyone. It could
be to his friends. It could be to anybody else. We don't know. There is no
way of knowing," Inhofe said.
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On the Obama plus side, Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of
Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer will lead the
Obama review review of the FCC. Both are highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway
experts in telecom policy, and they've both been critical of Bush telecom
policies in the past year. The choice of these two signals an entirely
different approach to the in-bed policymaking that's characterized the past
eight-years at the FCC.
On the negative side, Eric Holder is Obama's choice to be the next attorney
general. Holder is another member of the Clinton Guard. He served as deputy
attorney general during the Clinton's rein.
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Too funny on TV, MSNBC is running a promo. Viewers who want to witness the
"change of power" should stay tuned. Yeah, watch Arianna Huffiington fill in
for Rachel Maddow and guess what language she speaks. You'd think for as
long as Huffington has been around she would have lost that thick accent. It
bothers me because when I first applied for a job in Hawaii radio I was told
my Vermont accent wouldn't be tolerated by listeners.
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YES!
BlogActive.com turned the heat up on Subway and won after it was learned
that a Subway franchisee gave $2,500 to the Yes on 8 campaign. Last week BA
contacted Subway Headquarters and made the following demands:
1. Repudiate the gift.
2. Add sexual orientation and gender identity to the corporation's
non-discrimination policy.
3. Give an equal gift to the opposing side.
Subway Director of Corporate Communications Michele DiNello responded to the
three demands by conceding each one.
BA wrote in part, "We have a handle - a handle on a spigot of money. Mess
with the gays and watch the 'pink wrath' slowly twist the spigot until
they're at the table begging for forgiveness."
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Let the brainwashing continue.
Woodbury Elementary School has the tiny Vermont town (Pop. 810) by the same
name fussing and feuding over where their kids can say the Pledge of
Allegiance, when, and where like it makes a goddamn difference except that
the Pledge is pointless other than as a means of brainwashing children.
In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schoolchildren can opt out of
reciting the pledge for religious reasons. Sixty-one years later, the court
said a California father couldn't challenge the Pledge's unconstitutionality
but it didn't rule on the constitutionality of forced recitation.
So along comes VT parent Ted Tedesco circulating petitions calling for the
Pledge's return as a daily practice at the school with 55 children in grades
kindergarten through six. School officials said okay, but not in the
classroom. Instead, a 6th grade student was assigned to go around to the
four classrooms before classes started, gathering up anyone who wanted to
take the pledge and then taking them to the gym to do it. About half the
students were into pledging.
Tedesco, 55, a retired U.S. Marine Corps major, wasn't satisfied, calling
the pledging disruptive because it put young children in the position of
having to decide between pre-class play time and leaving the classroom to
say the Pledge.
Can you believe such shit is going on in 21st Century USA? Too bad Tedesco
isn't as gung-ho about the quality of education as he is kids taking a
meaningless pledge.
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Did you know Wall
Street and their global banking and corporate partners are aggressively
buying up water all over the world using now what is our money? In control
of the water, they'll be happy to sell it to us for a fat price.
In the United Kingdom, water customers are being squeezed to the tune of
17.5- 62.2% increases in water rates, and could be paying as much as $1,000
in annual water bills per household within five years.
All this while they buy up other things, like roads, bridges, tunnels,
ports, airports, gas, and water and sewage treatment. As you know, water is
the new oil. It's the golden rule. He who has the gold, rules.
Note: Water is more important than oil: it takes some 1,800 gallons to
produce a barrel of crude oil, some 4,000 liters of water to produce a liter
of ethanol, and 900 liters of water to make a liter of biodiesel.
Simply put, without water, there's no agriculture and food production, no
industries, no viable ecosystems, and no life. Major multinational banks and
corporations around the world are waking up to the reality of water's
emerging scarcity, which can disrupt national economies and lead to social
and political chaos.
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Speaking of water, another tale of greed.
The city of Attleboro, MA, is threatening to put a lien on the home of a
74-year-old blind woman because she was one penny short when she paid last
year's water bill. In a letter it cost the city $.42 to mail, the city said
the woman has until Dec. 10 to pay up. |
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